It is not as if they don't know that they are there.
But they have us used to an image of the Muslim as a fanatic lunatic freak contrasted with the Jewish as a "civilized westerner". Can't see much of a difference between one and the other, really.
Or, speaking of "civilized westerners", those Christian Identity American freaks.
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'Dardanidae duri, quae uos a stirpe parentum
prima tulit tellus, eadem uos ubere laeto
accipiet reduces. Antiquam exquirite matrem:
hic domus Aeneae cunctis dominabitur oris,
et nati natorum, et qui nascentur ab illis.'
We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.